Gun-carriage.



No. 700,627. Patented May 20, |902.

K. DEINLEIN.

GUN CARRIAGE.

(Application led Dec. 26, 1901.)

3 Sheets- Sheet (No Model.)

No. 700,627. Patented May 20, |902.

v K. DEINLEIN.

GUN CARRIAGE.

(Application Bled Dec. 26, 1901.) (No Model.) l 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

N0. 700,627. Patented May 20, |902.

K. DEINLEIN. Gun CARRIAGE.

(Application led Dec. 28, 1901.)

3 Sheets-Sheet 3,

(No Model.)

Ntra STATES KARL DEINLEIN, OF PILSEN, AUSTRIA-HUN GARY, ASSIGNOR TO FIRM OF SKODAWERKE, ACTIENGESELLSCI-IAFT IN PILSEN, OF PILSEN, AUS- 'DEIA-HUNGARY.

GUN-CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,627, dated May 20, 1902.

Application filed December 26, 1901. Serial No. 87,257. (No model.)

To @ZL whom, it may concern:

Be itknown that I, KARL DEINLEIN, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Pilsen, in the Province of Bohemia, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gun-Carriages; andIdo hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to means adapted to secure the rigid spade of a gun-carriage in its operative and inoperative positions and operated by the traversing handspike in such a way that the handspike when in its position for use or for. transport will lock the spade in the corresponding terminal position. For this purpose the spade, which is pivoted on the shoe of the trail, is provided with projections, which act in conjunction with projections of an oscillating guide-sleeve that surrounds the handspike, so that when the traversing handspike is in one of its end positions the spade is locked in a position corresponding to the position of the handspike.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is a Y longitudinal section of the trail of agun provided with one example of a device according to this invention, the spade and the traversing handspike being in the positions oorresponding to the ring position of the gun. Fig. 2 is a similar longitudinal section of the trail with spade and handspike ready for transport. Fig. 3 is a plan corresponding to Fig. 2. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 show in a manner similar to that of Figs. l, 2, and 3 another example of somewhat-modied construction.

A spade a is adapted to rotate about a bolt c on the shoe b of the trail and is provided with two or more projections d, which engage with projections g or h on a guide-sleeve f, thatis adapted to be oscillated about a bolt e. A traversing handspike t' can be slid in the sleeve f and is adapted to be oscillated, together with the sleeve,about the bolt e. When the handspike is in use, its lower end is inserted into the rigid socketj, and the projections g on the sleeve f bear against the rear surfaces of projections d on the spade, which is thereby maintained in its working position and bears with its rear surface upon the fore edge of the trail-shoe b.

In order to bring the parts into a position suitable for transport, the handspike is withdrawn from its socketj until a collar Z bears on the sleeve f and is rotated about the bolt e in the direction indicated by the arrow I in Fig-1 until the projections d are freed,where' upon the spade a. can be turned into the position shown in Fig. 2. By continuing the oscillation of the handspikeit the projections h' are brought into engagement with the surfaces of the projections ol, which are now turned upward and were formerly turned rearward. The spade a, which now bears on abutments k or directly on the gun-carriage, is thus held in the raised or inoperative position. `To secure the spade, the handspike is pushed through the sleeve f until the head m at its end bears on the sleeve j', whereupon its forward end is suitably fixed to the gun-carriage.

To bring the spade a and the traversing handspike into the positions corresponding to the ring position of the gun, the forward end of the handspike is released from the guncarriage and the handspike is drawn through the sleeve f and oscillated in the direction indicated by the arrow II, Fig. 2, until the projections 7L release the projections d of the spade, whereupon the spade can be brought into the position shown in Fig. 1 and be locked in this position by further oscillation of the handspike in the direction indicated by the arrow II until the projections g engage behind the projections d and then pushing the handspike into the socket j.

In the example shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 the spade is turned up against the trail-shoe b when in its inoperative position. In this case for cooperating with each projection d on the spade the handspike-sleeve f has only one proj ection g,which is indicated by g in the figures and of which the front surface serves to fix the spade in position for transport and the end surface to hold the spade in the position corresponding to the firing position of the gun.

I claim- 1. In a gun-carriage, the combination With the trail and its shoe, of a spade pivotally connected to the shoe and provided with suitable projecting means, and means pivotally mounted in the shoe and engaging the projecting means of the spade for retaining the latter in its operative position.

2. In a gun-carriage, the combination with the trail thereof and its shoe, of a spade pivotally connected to the shoe and provided with suitable projecting means, means pivotally connected with the shoe and engaging the projecting means of the spade for retaining the latter in its operative position, and means carried by the trail to limit the movement, in one direction, of the spade.

3. In a gun-carriage, the combination with the trail thereof and its shoe, ot' aspade pivotally connected to the shoe and provided with suitable projecting means, a bolt secured to the shoe, a sleeve mounted upon said bolt and provided with means adapted to engage the projecting means of the spade for retaining the latter in its operative position, and means for operating the said sleeve.

4. In aguil-carriage, the combination with the trail thereof and its shoe, of a spade pivotally connected With the shoe and provided With suitable projecting means,a bolt secured to the shoe, a sleeve mounted upon said bolt and provided with means adapted to engage the projecting means of the spade for retaining the latter in its operative position, means for operating the said sleeve, and means carried by the trail for limiting the movement; in one direction, of the spade.

5. In agun-carriage, the combination with the trail thereof and its shoe, of a spade pivotally connected with the shoe and provided With suitable projecting means,a bolt secured to the shoe, a sleeve mounted upon said bolt and provided with means adapted to engage the projecting means of the spade for retaining the latter in its operative position, and a handspike secured in the said sleeve for operating it.

6. In a gun-carriage, the combination With the trail thereof and its shoe, of a spade pivotally connected with the shoe and provided with suitable projecting means, abolt secured to the shoe, a sleeve mounted upon said bolt and provided with means adapted to engage the projecting means of the spade for retaining the latter in its operative position, means extending through the said sleeve for operating it, said trail provided with a socket adapted to receiveone end of the means extending through the sleeve.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention Ihave signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

KARL 'DEINLEIN- 7Witnesses:

JOSEF RBUscH, ALvEs'ro S. HoGUE. 

